And you work to keep people from knowing about the crimes whenever you can, and downplay them, and call anyone who demands action a racist, and cause more and more people to decide "Screw this, if the government won't act, we'll have to."

But
in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control
advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of
assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference.

It
turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority
of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns
do.

In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows.

The
continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive
focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like
the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn,
obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.

...It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then
banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” ...
It must've caused unending butthurt to publish this article.

Speaking of screwing people,But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of
Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to
keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports
the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan
cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of
about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early
next year....The problem is, there’s no replacement for wood-burning stoves in
Alaska’s interior. Heating oil is too expensive for a lot of people, and
natural gas isn’t available. So they’ve got to burn something. The
average low temperature in Fairbanks in December is 13 degrees below
zero. In January, it’s 17 below. During the coldest days of winter, the high
temperature averages -2 degrees, and it can get as cold as -60. This is
not a place where you play games with the cold. If you don’t keep the
fire lit, you die. For people of modest means, and especially for the
poor, that means you burn wood in a stove—and you keep that fire lit
around the clock.
Thinking about this, I ask you to reflect on the line in the previous link, ...that all property ultimately belongs to the state, whose primary interest in said property is to prevent said land from ever benefiting the people in any way. Now think about the result of people in Alaska being give the choice of 'Move to somewhere that heating oil and gas is available/affordable, or freeze'. Does it not strike you that this would seem like a wonderful thing to do to people by Obama & Co? Force them out of the places that horrible humans shouldn't be 'fouling the face of mother Gaia' or something?

It wouldn't surprise me in the least that this President and EPA decided to use this to do exactly that. You've got the enviroweenie extremists who'd love to make most of the population disappear, but they'd settle for driving them out of everywhere they can, and you have the control freaks who don't actually care a crap for The Environment, but the loves them some new way to control the peasants.

License plate readers that provided the authorities with no personal
information would be pointless, because cars don't commit crimes; only
people do. So one of two things seems to be true about license plate
readers. Either they do not record any personal information, in which
case they are worthless as a crime-fighting tool. Or they do record
personal information—about tens of thousands of people who are not
criminals, without any reasonable grounds for suspicion.In short, they are either useless or they are an invasion of privacy. Which is it?

How stupid are most gun laws(and a lot of the idiots who enforce them)? This stupid.While this is the exact NFA violation that the provisions in the law
were placed there for, a violent criminal unlawfully obtaining a deadly,
concealable, and menacing weapon, in almost every jurisdiction in the
USA the ATF does not pursue violent criminal violators of the NFA
relative to short-barreled weapons.Why not? Because the experienced criminal investigators know that if
they complete the case and present it to the US Attorney’s Office all
tied up in a bow with slam-dunk evidence of every element of the crime,
the AUSA will still decline it. The US Attorneys don’t want to jail
violent street criminals, they want the ATF out there chasing paperwork
errors by licensees. An AUSA gets much more attorney cred for nailing
some gun dealer or importer on a transposed serial number on a form (or,
one of ATF’s favorites, the end purchaser putting down the wrong county
of residence by mistake), than he;d ever get just locking up another
ho-hum gang member (who just turned to crime because he’s a
misunnerstood minority, depraved on account of he’s deprived).

it's somehow OUR fault Venezuela isn't Socialist Heaven, but instead a hellhole like every other country that's gone socialist.He
spent the day before foraging for food in an empty lot, because there
was nothing to eat at home. Then in a hospital because what he found
made him gravely ill.
Hours
later, he was dead on a gurney, which doctors rolled by his mother as
she watched helplessly. She said the hospital had lacked the simplest
supplies needed to save him on that day last July....
Doctors have prepared to operate on bloody tables because they did not have enough water to clean them. Psychiatric patients have had to be tied to chairs in mental hospitals because there was no medication left to treat their delusions.
Hunger has driven some people to riot — and others into rickety fishing boats, fleeing Venezuela on reckless journeys by sea.
But it was the story of a boy with no food, who had gone searching for wild roots to eat but ended up poisoning himself instead, that seemed to embody everything that had gone wrong in Venezuela.
Damn the communist bastards who caused this. And damn every brainless clown who insists it's not the fault of the socialists.

Friday, December 30, 2016

to the point of putting out crap like this.Anyway, you have to be really dumb/distracted when you cannot get the
math right even when you get to move the goalposts and come up with your
own definitions.

always a victimizer.Those last 2 sentences of Dauber's are — as her use the word "garner"
suggests — disingenuous. The accused and the accuser are not in the same
position, and the panel isn't voting to pick one of 2 individuals who
are vying for the same thing. It's not a question of equality. It's a question fairness — giving enough process to the one who faces a very serious deprivation.
ADDED: I don't like Dauber's reference to the "victim" and the
"respondent." The absence of parallelism shows the strain. Before the
outcome is determined, it is emotive and biased to call one person the
"victim." Dauber is decorous enough to avoid saying the word that goes
with "victim": "perpetrator." She says "respondent." The word that goes
with "respondent" is "complainant."

Borrowed from Huffman, 'This is what they think of you':Isn’t it great to be a gun owner? Without your weapons, you’d
probably have to face up to being an ignorant redneck loser, but with
guns you’re the man!
And if you don't agree with them, you're a horrible beast who wants children to die!!

A: Tucson city government is violating the law. And about to pay a serious price(it SHOULD come out of the pockets of the idiots responsible). And it demonstrates what they're really after, and what's actually wrong with them:FBI background check registrations are insufficient to these people.
They begged and pleaded and campaigned for background checks, and now
want more, but they're obviously not enough. The smelter is the real
issue.

This is the topic Tucson raises -- violation of law by elected officials
in pursuit of the same irrational perverse goal their fellow leftists
pursue at everyone's dangerous expense. It is an impossible attempt to
quench their paranoid fears by suppressing the rights of innocent people
everywhere. The notion of guns in the public's hands is simply
unacceptable to them. It's not political, it's medical, they're
hoplophobic, and a dire threat to freedom. Their unbalanced actions
qualify them for removal from setting public policy and destroying
valuable public property in the process, in violation of law.

Actually, I tend to think the only reason is 'surprises' anyone(and they're all his supporters that I can tell) is because they know how much money Jewish groups put into the Democrat Party, and they're surprised he'd endanger that.Think about it. When we celebrate Chanukah, we celebrate the
Maccabees’ battle for Jerusalem, for control of the eternal Jewish
capital. And on the eve of Chanukah, Obama declared the Western Wall,
the only remnant of the Second Temple, occupied territory.Every empire or ruler who ever made war against the Jewish people has
disappeared from the face of the earth. Some are barely memories. Obama
and his enablers — especially his Jewish supporters — are destined to
suffer the same ignoble fate.Many of my friends in synagogue append the traditional Jewish phrase “Yemach shemo” (may his name be erased) to any mention of Obama.The only surprise about Obama’s perfidy is that it surprises anyone.
One of Obama’s closest friends back in Chicago was Rashid Khalidi, an
arch-terrorist and Jew-hater. A tape of a speech by Obama at a dinner in
Khalidi’s honor is so poisonous to Jews that the Los Angeles Times keeps it under lock and key.

Her target, Ms. Nomani, said this in an interview: She continued, “This is not a difficult conversation to be had … I have
never felt unwelcome in this country. After this election, my fellow
liberals have turned me into an enemy, as if I have horns on my head.
That’s not a comfortable feeling.”
It's not, is it? Just remember that your 'fellow liberals' have been throwing crap like that at anyone who doesn't follow the Approved Line for years.

I'd heard of some things, but not this:For example, I’d heard about your origins as a poor girl from the
hills of East Tennessee, and when I learned you’d created a theme park
in your native Sevier County I rolled my eyes. “Really, a theme park?” I
thought. “As if roller coasters will really help the people of rural
Appalachia. Why not create something truly useful to give back to your
community, like a library.”

You have created a
library, actually, and possibly in a bigger and more magical way than
any brick structure filled with books could. And this is where my
understanding of who you are really began to shift.

Now I can't even sign on until I run their 'anti-virus' software. No thank you, I don't want whatever the hell your crap will leave behind.

Just saw some pictures of a bunch of celebritutes in their finest designer attire; makes me wish for celebrities who at least have the fashion sense of those in the 50's and 60's.

He gets this part right:The way we demonize comedians for use of language or terminology is unspeakable. Because that's exactly what comedians should be doing,
offending and upsetting people, and being offensive. Comedy is there,
like art, to make people uncomfortable, and challenge their views, and
hopefully have a spirited yet civil argument. If you're a comedian whose
bread and butter seems to be language, situations, and jokes that I
find racist and offensive, I won't buy tickets to your show or watch you
on TV. I will not support you. If people ask me what I think, I will
say you suck, and that I think you are racist and offensive. But I'm not
going to try to put you out of work. I'm not going to start a boycott,
or a hashtag, looking to get you driven out of the business.The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as
myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as
ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the upswell
of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we're
seeing now.I've spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America. There
are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what
everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get
by, and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny
them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however
different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and
treat them with contempt, we do no one any good. Nothing nauseates me
more than preaching to the converted. The self-congratulatory tone of
the privileged left—just repeating and repeating and repeating the
outrages of the opposition—this does not win hearts and minds. It
doesn't change anyone's opinions. It only solidifies them, and makes
things worse for all of us. We should be breaking bread with each other,
and finding common ground whenever possible. I fear that is not at all
what we've done.
And then says this:...If you look around the world (in the Philippines, in England), the rise
of nationalism, the fear of the Other. When people are afraid and feel
that their government has failed them they do things that seem
completely mad and unreasonable to those of who are perhaps under less
pressure. As unhappy and surprised as I am with the outcome, I'm
empathetic to the forces that push people towards what I see as an
ultimately self-destructive act. Berlusconi, Putin, Duterte, the world
is filled with bad choices, made in pressured times.
'the fear of the Other'. I think there's little of that, and lots of pissed-off at the people he mentions in the first part.

Also, voting for Clinton, that's not a 'ultimately self-destructive act'?

A: Yes, Obama & Co. worked hard to screw Israel. Because Obama doesn't like Jews, Netenyahu wouldn't kiss his ass, and because- for God knows what reason- they like enabling a bunch of bloody-handed savages.
B: Yes, they're still lying about it. Because that's what they do.
C: God knows what other shit this miserable bastard will throw out as he leaves.

When the last cellphone in the
Caliphate is destroyed or worn out no one will know how to make another.
Their 8th century is capable of producing fanaticism but probably
couldn't make a ball point pen. Objects in the ISIS universe are
"magical" -- put there by Allah in the possession of the infidel for
holy warriors to plunder and enjoy until the power which inheres in them
gradually fades away.

Surprisingly much of the modern world is not very different. Many people treat
technology like magic even in the West. How does a cell phone work?
Dunno. Where does it come from? The store....If a global catastrophe destroyed all of civilization's works yet spared
these few million they could re-create every object in the world again.
By contrast if only these few millions perished the remaining billions
though untouched could continue only until things broke down. It is
knowledge which sustains civilization. Of course knowledge is also
stored in libraries against catastrophe. Or is it? If universities
began seeing science as old "white man" sorcery they might start purging
it like ISIS does wizardry.
And the result, as Heinlein noted, will be blamed on 'bad luck'.

And if you're not familiar, there's a list of 213 things Skippy is not allowed to do; part of them:The sound of the Phalanx anti-missile defense system going off is not
just a way to alert the crew that the ship is about to sink. Sponge Bob Square Pants is not a proper cadence for marching Not allowed to exchange my M16 for a Pistol, “Because it’ll be more fun.”
Not allowed to Exchange my M16 for a shotgun, “Because all the cool kids have one.”
Not allowed to exchange my M16 for a Sub-Machine Gun.
Ok, I can, but only if I can find one for the commander too.

Also, there's a followon. I particularly likeDo not challenge SERE grads to play hide-and-seek.

Another "Yes, we lied, and we did this to damage the US and empower Iran" from Dear Leader:Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) posted
documents revealing that President Obama granted Iran permission to stockpile uranium in excess of the 300 kilogram limit set by the nuclear deal. Jenna Lifhits of the Weekly Standard has the story.The exemptions had been kept secret for almost a year. However the
Trump administration reportedly intended to make them public, which may
be why the IAEA decided to reveal them.The Obama administration didn’t just keep the exemptions secret. Apparently, it denied their existence. According to Lifhits:

Some details of the exemptions had previously been leaked. The Institute
for Science and International Security revealed in September that Iran
had been allowed to exceed certain caps in the deal so that the country
could come into compliance with the deal’s terms.Administration officials dismissed the. . .report at the time.

In other words, the administration was dishonest. What else is new?

Well, if you're this concerned about people finding out what your reading list is, maybe you're doing something you don't want people to know about. And when you're a teacher/professor, people damn well have a right to know what you're teaching. Deal with it.

Speaking of academics, remember when the left valued other views, and tolerance thereof?

C Christine Fair, an associate professor at the Center for Peace and Security Studies, was incensed after Asra Q Nomani, 'lifelong liberal', wrote an article about voting for Donald Trump as a Muslim immigrant.

That led to a month of abuse on social media - including insults and threats of lawsuits - The Daily Caller reported.
The same kind of idiot who screams "RACISM!" if someone on the right looks sideways at a muslim. But those are 'good' muslims, I guess; 'bad' ones are open targets.

For example. I have been for gay marriage since the AIDs epidemic. Why?
Because as my friends were dying I saw too many people I knew,
respected and loved get completely fucked by insurance companies,
families of SIGs and the law standby helpless because a couple -- that
had been together for decades -- weren't allowed the legal protections
of marriage. (Yes, I just said "I was for gay marriage before it was
fashionable.")

Am I for forcing religious institutions into performing services? Am I
for hundreds of thousands of dollars penalties for not baking a cake?
Am I for specialized government agencies to specifically hunt down
those who don't want to participate? Not only no, but HELL NO!

The long and short of it is though that I'm betting that a lot of
people who are in hysterics right now ... well, it's not just that
they've been walking past a fierce dog behind an electric fence and
snapping their fingers at it. Many have actively been throwing rocks at
the dog.

Well they've just seen the fence they've been basing their behaviors
has been blown down. To further the analogy, they're screaming for it
to be put back up before the dog realizes it too.

Thomas Sowell is retiring. They collected some of his better sayings:1. "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."2. "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."3.
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three
decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded
good."
And a personal favorite,5. "Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God."

Shoe on other foot, etc.Progressives cheered Obama when he used his unilateral power of
executive orders to fast track a left-wing agenda, circumventing our
system of checks and balances, and blamed the other side for “holding
back progress” and blocking government from “doing more.”But now that same power rests in the hands of a man who may use it to persecute them. It's scary. The liberties we trade for security and the
powers we grant government are never returned. We, as a people, must be
vigilant in ensuring that we are not tricked into trading away our
individual liberties for the promise of a benevolent government, because
one day that government may turn tyrannical and dictatorial.

Speaking of Democrats abusing power and people,John Chisholm, his assistants, and the so-called nonpartisan state Government Accountability Board spent
years hounding conservatives, spying on them, raiding their homes,
stealing their property and threatening to put them in jail if they said
anything about the probe, only to be told by multiple courts that their
speech dragnet was a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Still, Barca and his fellow Dems continue to see “potential crimes.”

No, the John Doe will never really be over for liberals — or for the people the probe terrorized.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical
Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of
individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who
had that freedom would use it responsibly ... [Now] there's a lot of
irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom.
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the
government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those
guarantees.
And a real winner,You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

The answer: that horrible people-hating freedom-hating member of the VRWC, Bill Clinton.

By the way, remember who said this?"We need to stop worrying about the rights of the individual and start worrying about what is best for society!"That was Hillary Clinton. Who came way too damn close to sitting in the Oval Office.Mr. Williamson's summary:Remember when Democrats protected freedom and liberty? Neither do I.

There could be a friggin' recording of the meeting, and they'd still deny it while they tried to find a way to weasel-word around it.

Couple of days ago one of Obama's paid liars loudly announced that 'the US did not draft or introduce' the resolution when asked about accusations Obama & Co. were involved. Tell me, how many ways could you be involved without having actually drafted or introduced it? A lot.

My breakdown:
This is just the kind of petty bullshit you'd expect from Obama, because Israel wouldn't kiss his ass and do as he wished. And I'm more likely to believe the Israelis on this than I am Obama & Co.

is mind-boggling. And whoever approved printing it is a fool.I suppose that by now regular readers of National Review will have figured out that my sympathy for the Trumps is . . . limited. My own view is that Donald and Ivanka and Uday and Qusay are genuinely bad human beings and that the American public has made a grave error in entrusting its highest office to this cast of American Psycho extras. That a major political party was captured by these cretins suggests that its members are not worthy of the blessings of this republic. But here we are.

Seriously? You compare them to the murdering, torturing offspring of Saddam Hussein? Williamson, you're- I can't say 'a fool' because that doesn't begin to cover it.

'Higher' Education. That's a label I use for some of the crap that goes on in colleges: the suppression of speech, the leftward cliff(lot more than a slant) of teachers who more indoctrinate than teach, the hideous COST of all of it.* And a lot more kids are seeing it for themselves.

So, take the people hearing the Mike Rowe message and going for a skilled trade, take the people sick of the expense and bullshit of going to college, take the availability of online courses, and the university model's in real trouble. Whether the clowns in charge at so many of them realize it or not.

About time. And maybe it'll force some changes.

Speaking of colleges,Over the summer, workmen removed most of the remaining books fromour Science and Engineering Library at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Roughly 80,000 books, worth between $2-$6 million were destroyed or shipped off campus to distant storage facilities.The act was taken with virtually no faculty input.In 1990, when I arrived to work at UCSC, I took pride in our Science Library.By 2000 new journals were no longer displayed.By 2010 the journal room was gone, turned into a large study. We could no longer browse new journals.After journals had been vanquished, the next enemy was clear: books.At the beginning of this Fall quarter I entered the library. No books on the first floor. I walked up to the second floor, where the math and physics collection used to be. Nothing. No books....I’ve since found that the phenomenon of shrinking and destroying university research libraries is international. But as we like to say here at UCSC, we are at the vanguard.
Our head librarian prefers the word “de-duplicate” to “destroy”, “remove” or “shred”.The rationale behind de-duplification? Space. Empty study space with desks for the flood of 600 additional students UC Santa Cruz was pressured to admit this Fall.How did the library staff decide what books to de-duplicate? Data, analytics, the ubiquitous algorithm, devoid of a human element. If a book had not been touched, according to library data, in the last five years, then it went on their chopping list.This rationality ignores the library’s clients: humans.

My, Planned Parenthood has had a serious money-maker going here.Showalter further reports on the highly profitable and brisk business. Planned Parenthood is now proved guilty beyond a doubt, as the actual invoices are produced in the report:“After paying $60 for a 20-week old fetus at a Planned Parenthood clinic in June of 2014, ABR "sold its brain to one customer for $325; both of its eyes for $325 each ($650 total) to a second customer, a portion of its liver for $325 to a third customer; its thymus for $325 and another portion of liver to a fourth customer; and its lung for $325 to a fifth customer." “And those costs were only for the fetal organs themselves. Before adding shipping and disease screening fees, on that one fetus alone the company charged its customers a total of $2,275, netting a $2,215 profit.

* When daughter was at OU, one day one of the teachers was trying(again) to get the audio/video system for the room to work. Finally told everyone "Every one of you is paying a fee as part of the class costs to buy and maintain this equipment. Every One Of You, and everyone else who takes this class. They're damned well not using that money to keep this working, so where's it going?" Which was a damned good question.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Taking to his Twitter account on Christmas eve, Ciccariello-Maher, himself a white man, tweeted, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” He later deleted the tweet.The professor who describes himself as a “visiting researcher” at El
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales in Mexico also had praise for the
“massacre of whites.”
Also says he's a communist. Which also makes him the enemy.

One does wonder, if some Person of Colour decided to whack him, would he protest? Or consider that he had it coming?

including discovering that George Washington, were he to come back for a day, might take up a whip and go through the university named after him.George Washington University in Washington, D.C., has apparently
decided that giving students more “flexibility” means freeing them from taking required courses in U.S. History — even if they’re history majors.According to The College Fix, the new requirements
allow for students to take an optional course in previously required
courses, or a high score on a placement test to opt out of the
requirement, but the mandate to take U.S. history is no longer in
effect.

As noted, even if this had been the right address/right people, what moron thought this would be a good action to take?Officers from the New York Police Department raided a Brooklyn home
on Thursday, arrested the family living there, and then posted pictures to Snapchat—yes, really—with the caption "Merry Christmas Its [sic] NYPD."It wasn't until later that the cops realized they had raided the
wrong house, and arrested and publicly humiliated the wrong people.
'Unprofessional' is an understatement."The worst part was the Snapchats," Kimberly Santiago, one of the people
wrongfully arrested in Thursday's incident, told the TV station. "He
doesn't deserve to be a police officer. If he does that, what other
things he does on the low that nobody knows?"
Exactly the problem with a lot of other crap some departments let a cop get away with.

Suddenly, it seems, the left has discovered freedom of association.
After years of telling religious people that they had a moral and legal
obligation to throw out their religion and serve same-sex weddings,
provide contraception, and fund abortion, the left now realizes that the
ability to pick and choose those to whom you give your services is
actually rather vital.Don’t expect it to last.Of course artists should be able to turn down clients. So should
religious bakers. But you won’t see the left acknowledge that. The only
freedom to turn down clients is the freedom for leftists to turn down
conservative and religious clients, not the other way around.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis

Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. - Capt. Mal

A Rifleman’s Prayer:Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses. Geek with a .45

"He's Black Council,", I said.

"Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered.

I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier."

Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day." Ebenezar McCoy

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling

This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself." Dr. M.L. King Jr.